Colorado · Nonprofit
ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,640 to it, the largest being ARC THRIFT STORES INC ($892,140). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rocky Mountain Health Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Jolley Family Foundationlocal
- The Arc of the United Statesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $274k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rocky Mountain Health Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jolley Family FoundationlocalDE · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Arc of the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabling Barriersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Two Rivers Community FoundationlocalCO · funds 4 organizations near you
- Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Developmental Pathways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS?
- ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,640 to it, the largest being ARC THRIFT STORES INC ($892,140). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,050,640 in grants to ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS?
- ARC THRIFT STORES INC is the largest funder on record, with $892,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARC OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing